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FOREWARD
SYSTEMS UPGRADE SECTION
This issue of "USEH GHOUP NEWS" contains a special "Systems Upgrade" Section. Inside you
will find descriptions of many software and hardware upgrades available to MDP customers. This
section is intended to be used as a handy reference for all our ~1DP upgrades.
Both software and hardware options are offered for the Tek 8500 Series, and recent price adjust-
ments have made many of these option even more attractjve.
The advantages of using a "universal" development system, as oppposed to using a "dedicated"
development system are well documented. Owners of Tektronix' Software Development Tools
enjoy a broad spectrum of modestly-priced system upgrade uptions.
In many cases, a modest investment spent to enhance an existing system can mean the difference
between a frustrated design team that finishes a project late, and a contented d('sign team that
proudly delivers a product on time, and on budget.
If you wish to order or if you have further questions, just contact your Tektronix :rvIDP sales
representative for more information.
ABOUT THE "USER GROUP LIBRARY SECTION"
Programs reported in the {)ser Group Library will be available through your Tektronix Applica-
tions Engineer. When updates are available, they will be reported in each issue and a separate
total listing will be produced annu ally.
REGISTERED TRADEMARKS
The following trademarks are listed throughout this issue of USEH GHOUP NE\VS. For your COll-
vience, we have selected not to list them as footnotes at the bottom of each issue. The trademarks
included in this issue are 3,.<; follows:
VAX, DEC, V~1S & ULTHIX are trademarks of Digital Equipment Corporation.
UNIX is a trademark of AT&T Bell Laboratories.
TNIX is a trademark of Tektronix, Inc.
Editor
CONTENTS
SYST'EMS lJ[)GRJ1DE SECTION ............................................................ 1:31
ENHANCEMENTS TO THE 8560 ........................................................................................ 132
AUXILIARY SOFTWARE PACKAGE FOR THE 8560 .................................................... 134
NATIVE SOFTWARE PACKAGE FOR THE 8560 ........................................................... 1:37
TEXT PROCESSING PACKAGE ENHANCES 8560 SERIES ........................................ 140
INTER-SYSTEM COMMUNICATIONS PACKAGE li'OR THE 8560 ........................... 141
FASTER IS BETTER ............................................................................................................... 141
KITS TO MAKE YOUR EQUIPMENT DO MORE ........................................................... M4
ASSORTED ACCESSORIES ................................................................................................ 145
}J]lODU()T INl?OIlMJ4T'I()N SECT']ON ............................................. 147
TEKTHONIX' FASTEST EMULATOR SUPPORTS MIL-STD 1750A ......................... 147
68000 C COMPILER ................................................................................................................ 148
STRUCTURED ANALYSIS TOOLS FOR VMS ................................................................. H9
STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS QUESTIONS ........................................................................... 151
MDP MANUALS LISTING; EFFECTIVE 2/5/86 .............................................................. 154
APP!jICA. TION/, SECTION ......................................................................... 161
RESETTING 4105 DIALOG AREA COLORS ..................................................................... WI
RUNNING ICOM40/PC OUT OF RAM DRIVE ................................................................ 162
HLL - DON'T LEAVE HOME WITHOUT ONE ................................................................. 163
HEXADECIMAL AND BINARY DOWNLOADS USING ICOM40 .................................. J63
,,'30IJUJ'ION SOFTl1'ARE CONNECTION ...................................... 16.5
THIRD PARTY SOF'TW'ARE UPDATE .............................................................................. 165
PliO.DUCl'PERFORMA.NC'E SEC1'/ON ......................................... 167
MDP BUG BASE ....................................................................................................................... lti7
CANNOT USE MORE TO HEAD 8540 COMMAND OUTPUT ..................................... 167
PROBLEM STARTING UP KSH COLORKEY+ ............................................................... 168
DATABASEQQ DEFINITION PROBLEM .......................................................................... 168
8086 PDB VI WILL NOT WORK WITH V2 PASCAL ...................................................... 169
PLDE LONG LINE PROBLEMS ........................................................................................... 169
80188 JUMPER CONFIGURATION CORRECTION ....................................................... 169
Z8000 .les INITIALIZATION CODE PROBLEM ............................................................... 170
80186 EMULATOR CAN CHANGE MEMORY LOCATIONS ERRONE-
OUSLY ......................................................................................................................................... 170
80186 EMULATOR CAN HANG ON START-UP .............................................................. 171
P AS68K (VMS) MATHCK PROBLEM ................................................................................. 171
8086 ICS (8560) TRUNCATION ERRORS .......................................................................... 171
LAS I.lINKER UNDER VMS GIVES MEMORY ACCESS VIOLATIONS ...................... 172
PDB68K (VMS) INFINITE LOOP PROBLEM .................................................................... 1.72
CAN'T INITIALIZE K.SH THROUGH 8540 ......................................................................... 173
PRODUCT PERFORMANCE REPORT ............................................................................. 174
lJ/3f-Ell (ill C) U}J LJ1~llARY .L1J3STllA CT'S ........................................... 175
27256PP - 27256 PROM PROGRAM~1ER SOURCES ...................................................... 175
ATB1240 - 1240 AUTOMATED TEST SYSTEM ............................................................... 175
BAUD - REPORTS OR CHANGES 8560 BAUD RATES ................................................. 176
CHART - CHART HURRICANE PROGRESS .................................................................... 176
CLRI - MODIFY TNIX INODES ............................................................................................ 176
DAILPASS - DAILUP PORT PASSW'ORD PROGRAM ................................................... 177
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DUMPHIST - GIVE DUMP HISTORIES .............................................................................. 177
GTIMES - PRINT ACCESS AND MODIFY TIMES .......................................................... 177
PAYMENT - PRINT LOAN TABLES .......................................... "....................................... 177
PIX8085 - ,\\'ATCH 8085 EXECUTE 'ADD B' ..................................................................... 178
SETWIN - SETS 4105 GRAPHICS WINDOW .................................................................... 178
UMODEM - A MINOR BUG FIX ........................................................................................... 178
UPLOAD/DOWNLOAD - 8560-8002 ASCII FILE XFER .................................................. 179
USERINFO - PRINTS INFO FROM /ETC/P ASSWD ...................................................... 179
X4105.A - 4105 TERMINAL LmRARY ................................................................................ 179
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USER GROUP NEWS Volume 3 Issue 4 ~IDP PRODUCT INFOR~v1A TION
SYSTEMS UJJGRADE SECT'/ON
ENHANCEMENTS TO THE 8560
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ENHANCEMENTS TO THE 8560
To increase your development teams productivity and make those project deadlines just a little
easier; consider several of the performance upgrades available for the Tektronix 8560 Series Multiuser
Software Development Systems (rvfSDS).
High CPU Performance
o Option 8560F10 LSI-ll/73 CPU -- SIN > B099999
o Option 8560Fll LSI-ll/73 CPU -- SIN < BIOOOOO
The 8560 or 8561 ~1SDS can now be upgraded tb include Digital Equipment's high performance
microprocessor, the MICRO/ J11. This microprocessor has the compute power of an PDP-11/70 and
will increase performance in the 8560's by at least a factor of 2. Some stand-alone processes improve
by a factor of 4. There are also advantages in going to the J11 besides just compute power. This
upgrade faciltates code development for users who are generating large amounts of code. Link time is
reduced substantially because processes will no longer be limited to a common 64K memory space for
both data and instructions. The MICHO / J11 aIJocates 64K RAM space for instructions and 64K
RA~1 space for data.
Adding lViore Users To Your System
o 8560 Port Upgrade -- Option 8560F03 Total of 8 Ports
o 8561 Port Upgrade -- Option 8560F08 Total of 4 Ports
This upgrade is straight forward. It's an easy way to improve overall design productivity. As your
product development task leads to the integration phase you may want to add ports for those addi-
tional 8540 Integration Units that may be needed.
Additional ports allow you to add remote access via a modem or for communications from p other
hosts to your 8560. Also, you may want to consider adding users -- software evaluation engineers,
marketing people, and technical writers to your 8560.
Why? If they're part of your development team and you want higher productivity you can utilize the
software tools that are available for the 85608 to facilitate evaluation work. You can develop your
product planning documents, engineering specifications, and manuals using the text processing tools
available for the 8560 . You can ~se the mail facility to communicate the status of the various pro-
jects groups. TNIX allows you a centralized development environment for all phases of the design
project.
Additional Primary Memory
o Option 8.560F05 -- 256k byte Additional iYfemory
o Option 8560F06 -- 512k byte Additional Memory
If you have a heavily loaded system and want to improve the overall system efficiency consider the
addition of more primary memory to your 8560 system. Since all processes run in primary memory
(RAtv1), performance is affected by the number of processes running. If the number of processes run-
ning exceeds the available primary memory, processes are temporarily placed in the swap area of the
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hard disk. A swapper routine, executed by the operating system, handles the scheduling of process
swapping between memory and the hard disk. By adding more memory you will reduce the incidence
of swapping and increase system performance.
Additional Secondary Storage
o Option 8560F09 -- 40M Byte Addtl Hard Disk -- SIN> B099999
o 8503 Expan. Disk -- 35M Byte Addtl Hard Disk -- SIN < B100000
System performance will start to degrade as the file system approaches about 80 percent of the hard
disk capacity. The system will have to spend more time searching for free blocks over discontiguous
memory on the hard disk. You can get an idea of your hard disk utilization by executing the com-
mand 'df'. The value returned is the number of free blocks left on your hard disk. Each block
represents 512 bytes. With a file system that has a 2M byte swap space, and you have less than
13,000 blocks for a 35~1 byte hard disk or 14,800 blocks for the 40M byte hard disk, you are
approaching the 80 per cent figure. You may want to consider cleaning some of the files off the disk
or the addition of a second hard disk.
GPIB Interface Back-Up Facilities
o Option 8560F04 -- GPIB Interface
This interface is a special purpose IEEE 488 interface intended for 9-track magnetic tape back-up for
the 8560 Series Hard Disk. For further information for your particular application, contact your local
Tektronix office.
Combined Options
o Option 8561F08 -- Combined 35M byte Hard Disk and 4 Port Upgrade
o Option 8561F09 -- Combined 35M byte Hard Disk and 8 Port Upgradf,.
These options upgrade the Tektronix 8561 Multiuser Software Development Unit. These upgrades
will increase the Hard Disk capacity and the number of system ports.
Summary
Tektronix' local field support can help with any questions on the above listed upgrades. They also
provide Application Engineering support, if desired. Contact your local field office for more informa-
tion.
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40M Byte Hard Disk (Option 8560F09)
Joe Morabito Application Engineer
AUXILIARY SOFTWARE PACKAGE FOR THE 8560
Tektronix provides several optional cla..'3s C software packages to further enhance the TNIX operating
system. These tools are invaluable to those who want to gain the full power of a UNIX-based
environment.
Option 8560U03 Auxiliary Utilities Package
The Auxiliary Utilities Package is a set of commands that are quite useful for doing general software
dev(>lopment work on the 8560. The following article describes the tools included in the Auxiliary
Package.
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1. Time/Productivity Management